28. Monitoring Availability with a Website Status Checker
Imagine one of your responsibilities is being second level support to a vendor app with a status page at http://server1:9000/. Let’s assume the vendor app you’re monitoring the status of has a status page that looks something like this when everything is ok.
Status: Ok
and when something is down it looks like this:
Status: Error! System down
Wouldn’t it be great if you could write a script to run in the background to tell you automatically that it went down?
In this recipe we’ll build a mock website status page indicating system availability. Then we’ll update the system availability to give a negative result. Then we’ll build a status-checker to read the availability and take action based ...
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